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Late 1600s – Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek constructed a microscope with a single spherical lens. It magnified up to ×275. 1800s - the optical quality of lenses increased and the ...

The dazzlingly detailed pictures of living cells convinced him to switch his major from mathematics and computer sciences to biology. Confocal microscopes have been transforming the working lives of ...

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In a remote village in eastern India, dozens of underprivileged children are for the first time marveling at the elaborate details of flower petals with the help of a microscope—made out of bamboo.